Thread: Random offshore pics

Originally Posted by dirk diggler

Geologists are my heroes

Thanks Dirk, we're normally very unappreciated.

An easy Green for you!

I reckon Geologists are great guys!

Yep. Gotta love the rock lickers.

Originally Posted by beerlaodrinker

Yep. Gotta love the rock lickers.

During my early years on drilling rigs we had a geologist who was in the habit of picking larger samples of the shaker screen and giving them a quick lick to get the mud off so he could see what it was.

Once the roughnecks latched on to that you couldn't find a kangaroo turd within 5 miles of the rig.

Originally Posted by Mendip

That's only when they're on shift... so only half the story.

They can also spend the other 12 hours 'beating off' in their cabins... I would imagine.

But anyway, I'm a different kind of geologist... I work on boats, not rigs, so it's nothing like that!

Yeah I didn't even know you were a geologist when I said that.

Originally Posted by Shy Guava

During my early years on drilling rigs we had a geologist who was in the habit of picking larger samples of the shaker screen and giving them a quick lick to get the mud off so he could see what it was.

Once the roughnecks latched on to that you couldn't find a kangaroo turd within 5 miles of the rig.

Yeah, I'm not surprised... this is the sort of stuff we have to deal with.

Many years ago on a trenching job an interesting chunk of heavily mineralised sediment came back to the boat, wedged in the body of the ROV. As per procedures I put the sample in a bucket of sea water to avoid contamination and left it on the back deck, waiting for the next port call to get it sent away.

After a while the water in the bucket turned a strange green colour and I was later told that all the guys on the back deck had been using my bucket as a toilet.

All the oil majors have teams of Geologists and Geophysicists and they're forever trolling each other. In my experiences the Geophysicists normally win when they point out to Geologists that they get excited looking at rocks

^ Well, I'm a bit of both so I don't know where that leaves me?

I rarely get to actually look at rocks these days.

^Both of those 2 Earth Sciences leave massive room open for interpretation, there's no such thing as black and white and that's the end of that when these guys start giving their opinions. Fortunately there's one piece of machinery that can sort out who was right and who was wrong, widely known as a rotary lie detector.

My old man told me they used to throw all kinds of things into the back of the shakers to freak the guys out. Ranging from bones from the galley to fake body parts from the joke shop.

^ At least you didn't have to wear the all black Baker covies

Almost Lulu-esque.


You're not working with a bone idle mommy's boy are ya?

That is the type of hazing that the runt has to endure. Slicktard gets fucked off and that is why he is so angry.

Had to be orange for offshore in case you fell overboard.

Originally Posted by dirk diggler

Had to be orange for offshore in case you fell overboard.

I see. My company voted to have black hard hats and in the sun, we the infrared gun showed that black hard hats were 5-6 degrees hotter than white ones. Everyone thought I was bickering. Then a Baker crew showed up and they were all pissed off that they had to wear black coveralls. Those whoors are way hotter than light colored ones. So I was proven right.

The covies I wear now are so thin that they’re see through.

^ The old pairs that have been washed a million times are the best. They breath

1 trip offshore working with oil based mud and the only thing they’re good for is the bin.

Originally Posted by Mendip

The yellow rigs, COSLInnovator and the COSLPioneer are designed for use in deep water (up to 750m) in harsh environments

they are semi-submersibles , and when on station they will fill up ballast and sink down into the water for stability and on each corner under the flotation pontoons there will be 2 big thrusters which can move 360 degrees and the speed of the propellers can be controlled very precisely via electric motors controlled by variable speed drives - the semi-sub will have 3 voting GPS units that then control the position of the rig to minimise stress on the drill string

^^ Great update.

Loved the "the view through my office port hole yesterday morning..."

Originally Posted by Mendip

The yellow rigs, COSLInnovator and the COSLPromoter are designed for use in deep water (up to 750m) in harsh environments, ie the North and Norwegian Seas. Dirk would know more about this, drilling's not my industry.

As it happens, I was sitting on the COSL Pioneer (same same) when you started this thread:

https://teakdoor.com/the-teakdoor-lo...ml#post4023859 (Random offshore pics)

Probably the most comfortable rig I've ever worked on.

Originally Posted by kmart

Alas, my days of offshore working here are mostly over. I now have an experienced Thai workforce that do all the offshore work. (We are mostly onshore-based, but get occasional specialist requests, like this one). I sometimes go to Songhkla for meetings and surveys. I'll PM you next time.

Still waiting for kmart to shout me for a beer.

^^ A good thing about working in Norway for me is the higher spec of vessels compared to the UK Sector, and of course elsewhere such as awest Africa. The work can get boring but I'll put up with that for now to get regular crew changes and comfortable living conditions.